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Fossil fuels emit planet-warming carbon dioxide when burned, but Ohio State...
Credit: Patrik Stollarz/AFP/Getty ImagesAs emerging technologies go, the idea is appealing — the ability to burn fossil fuels in order to generate energy but without emitting planet-warming carbon...
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Witch-labeling — accusing others of harmful supernatural abilities — has a...
Credit: Wikimedia Commons The act of stigmatizing people accused of practicing witchcraft would seem to have ended with the 17th century Salem, Mass. witch trials (1692–1693) that led to the deaths of...
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It’s not just the heat, but also the humidity, that could make life...
Credit: jaminwel via Getty ImagesIn the summer of 1995, a historic heat wave gripped the city of Chicago. Temperatures soared to 106 degrees Fahrenheit and caused 739 deaths. But it wasn’t just the...
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Scientists hacked a standard inkjet printer to create multicolor images that...
Credit: domin_domin via Getty ImagesEven as workplaces go increasingly digital, we still use an alarming amount of paper. By one estimate, every office worker in the United States produces an average...
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Climate change, agricultural runoff, and human waste have quadrupled the size...
Credit: Getty ImagesThe world’s oceans are getting choked as climate change, agricultural runoff, and human waste have fueled a 10-fold increase in the number of oxygen-poor regions worldwide. Those...
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Nearly 4,000 solar panels, covering an area the size of two football fields,...
Credit: Genya Savilov/AFP/Getty ImagesAt ground zero of Ukraine's Chernobyl tragedy, workers in orange vests are busy erecting hundreds of dark-colored panels as the country gets ready to launch its...
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Robotaxis are prowling the Las Vegas Strip at this year's Consumer...
Credit: Alexander Koerner/Getty ImagesAt this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the popular ride-hailing service Lyft is offering robotaxis to weary pedestrians — self-driving BMWs...
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An experimental drug that targets the enzymes thought to slow metabolism in...
Credit: Ian Hooton via Getty ImagesStanley Watowich, an associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, was looking for something new....
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Astronomers observed two 13-billion-year-old galaxies spinning in whirlpool...
Credit: Amanda Smith, University of CambridgeAstronomers have looked back nearly 13 billion years and found very early galaxies that exhibit a steady swirling motion, very similar to the spin of...
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A study of Anglo-Saxon cemeteries suggests two seemingly timeless truths:...
Credit: pixabayInformation on human longevity in the historical record represents two extremes. On the one hand, there are the extreme claims in religion and myths: Methuselah in the Hebrew Bible...
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Researchers have identified eight, massive sheets of ice just below the...
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UA/USGSScientists just uncovered eight, massive ice sheets on Mars hidden below the surface. A co-author of a paper published Jan. 11 in the journal Science noted that future...
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The ancestors of butterflies and moths lived at least 200 million years ago,...
Credit: Wikimedia CommonsButterflies and moths appear to be very delicate creatures, and yet they turn out to be much tougher — both in terms of their anatomy and survival skills — than previously...
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The added weight from melting land ice has depressed the seafloor about 0.005...
Credit: Mario Tama/Getty ImagesWith solid data showing that the oceans have been rising slowly but surely for more than a century — more than 3 inches since 1993 alone, according to NASA satellite...
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Data from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed the presence of...
Credit: NASA/Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter/SETI Institute/Mars Institute/Pascal LeeThe north pole of the moon appears to be riddled with dozens of pits leading to underground lava tubes, according to...
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The navigation system uses x-ray light emitted from pulsars the same way...
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterNASA has successfully tested a new autonomous X-ray navigation system that could provide deep-space missions with a cosmic version of GPS. The system is a duo...
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Credit: Discovery ChannelA windmill is a mill that converts the energy of wind into rotational energy by means of vanes called sails or blades. Centuries ago, windmills usually were used to mill grain...
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New data shows that humans carry antibodies and even T-cells that target the...
Credit: Westend61 via Getty ImagesAn early draft of a scientific paper about potential human immunity to the Cas9 protein caused the stock prices of companies developing CRISPR-based therapies to...
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Amid continuing sexual harassment and assault allegations in entertainment,...
Credit: VW Pics via Getty ImagesAs accusations of harassment, assault, and discrimination continue to roil the entertainment, media, and political worlds, a new national survey shows that half of all...
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Although phasing out the chemicals that caused the ozone hole has led to...
Higher temperatures over Antarctica this year shrank the hole in the ozone layer to the smallest it's been since 1988. The ozone hole is a depletion of ozone gas (O3) in the stratosphere above...
View ArticleA Harvard engineering lab has been building a robotic bee for more than 25...
For more than 25 years now, a quiet little design lab at Harvard has been working on a unique robotics project — perfecting the world's first and only RoboBee. Research published Oct. 25 in the...
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